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Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Always With Us

March 26, 2014March 14, 2018 by Architorture

Paul Simon‘s one-and-only Graceland is the defining album of my childhood. More than any other music, those 11 tracks transport me back to our rickety Volkswagen bus: the brothers “grab-assing” as we slowly traversed the arid Central Valley – Yosemite so close, yet so far for an incorrigible seven-year-old. From 1986 on, there was one […]

The Futureheads: Rant

June 26, 2012 by Architorture

There are the haters: It’s been called “a stunt. It’s been called “a novelty record”. And there are the lovers: “Beautiful in the Buff”, they shout! Slate proclaims, “it’s certainly not a novelty record”. British punk-rockers, The Futureheads, most recent release, Rant, is how the band is announcing that they’re no longer “British punk-rockers”. From […]